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AKING POULTRY PAY 



•on top and Neponset red rope roofing on the sides. It 

 is divided into three pens and has four large windows. 

 All lumber and windows were second-hand material, 

 which reduced the cost. 



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FIG. 15 — THE AUTHOR- S FORTY-FIVE DOLLAR HOUSE 



A barrel stave house, which can be built at prac- 

 tically no cost for material, is shown in Figure 16. It 

 was put up by the Rhode Island experiment station to 

 show how cheaply a house can be built. It answers 

 the purpose very well for summer protection. 



A novel house is that shown in Figure 17. It was 

 an old hogpen twenty feet wide transformed into a 

 poultry house by two Massachusetts poultry keepers 

 who practice the most intensive system of poultry cul- 

 ture. Three floors two and one-half feet apart were 

 put in and divided into pens six by twelve feet in 



